Here are some of my bobbin lace books that need a new home. All are in very good to new condition and paperback, unless noted! All prices are WELL below current Amazon prices.

Note: if I need to ship to you (you are not local) I will have to add postage to your book price. I will ship cheapest way possible and send you a scan of the receipt after paypal payment and after I ship. Postage is pretty outrageous these days

Email me at stamp@ethaschuette.com with your address and the books that you would like and I will get a price from the post office.

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thank you so much for all the wonderful people who have given a new home to my books and threads and bobbins. I am NOT doing business or give out information over facebook. I am NOT befriending anybody whom I have not personally met. If you need to contact me, leave a comment on this blog or email me. Very simple

Yesterday I got rather intimate with the current Microsoft Office Word program. I really didn’t like the switch to the tabular layout and was constantly fighting to find the most basic tasks…. but now I discovered a whole new appreciation of it and getting more comfortable figuring out how to do what I want to do! So that was a good exercise in detective work.

Went about to make myself a workbook for the 108 form. It had to be easy to use, make sense (to me) and hold up to hopefully extended use and scribbling. Made a file that contained all postures/moves on half pages, added lines to write on and a bit of stamping on the cover pages:

I used 1 1/4 inch zutter coil in the binditall to bind it on a short side. Pages were printed on full pages of card stock, double sided, and arranged so that the facing page to a posture has room for “applications” to write in:

Application pages have a yinyang sign watermark, had to try that out too

Finally I will no longer loose my 108 pages, the front two pages have all postures of the form in order:

The covers are the same size as the inside pages, usually one would make them a bit larger. They were sealed with decoupage glue so I can wipe them if filthy. But distressed a bit with ink so it starts out looking a bit smudgy and used.

It seems like it was a few lifetimes ago when I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
Such a quiet and “good-looking” disease, I am surprised this society has not gotten much farther in figuring out what to do with it.
I do think I cope very well, it is mostly annoying the heck out of me. I think Cindy O’Neil said it just wonderfully (Vitality Magazine, 2001):
” Accepting my physical limitations has been the most distressing issue to deal with.”

You were so used to being able to do SO much, ALL the time, and now of a sudden, seems like you need a vacation after hard labor like, say, eating breakfast… now THAT is annoying and disturbing.

I don’t have to tell anybody all the shit that goes on with fibro, anybody can google that. Here is what I found helps some:

Walk! Walk every day, after 20 minutes you WILL feel better and walk some more. The more you stay still, the more you’ll hurt. Yet, if you walk “too much”, you’ll hurt more
Don’t eat crap, and again, we all know what that is. Eat unprocessed foods, that about covers it.

Qigong and TaiChi, helps, a LOT and can also be frustrating because you’ll want to do so much more and just can’t.
So then you have some “good days” and feel almost normal, yeah! and do more, and pay more a few days later…

So far I think what helps most with playing TaiChi is that you learn to relax (a much different relax than slumping in front of the TV..). Relaxing seems easy, but believe me, its the hardest thing I have ever attempted to allow to happen. (I didn’t write “do” on purpose). You learn to let go, not mind, and, well, relax. Your muscles, your tendons, your mind, everything.
To say we “work” on that sounds a bit crazy, but it is hard work to try to relax. Re-align body and mind.
This doesn’t “cure” fibro but it sure makes it easier to live with it. That is if you can ignore that everybody else in class seems to have more stamina and an easier time doing everything and probably doesn’t hurt ALL the time either… but even that, you learn to let go and not mind….just feels weird sometimes.

Perhaps this will one day relive me of this incredible over-sensitivity for noise, light, touch, smell, etc. everything is exaggerated and, well, hurts! makes you nervous, distracted, annoyed…

Which reminds me, time for a hair cut, my hair is longer than a couple of inches again and, yup, hurts! especially at night. This is so pathetic, anybody wanna laugh with me?